Acceptable Art Files

To ensure our Weber team communicates with our customers as efficiently and as effectively as possible, the following guidelines and tools are in place to help us, help you!

What your Graphic Designer needs to know when you email your work to Weber:

• Weber’s Design Art Department is a PC (IBM) based environment. The most efficient file type for our department is EPS (encapsulated post script file).
• All major drawing and design programs can convert their drawing files into EPS. The most commonly used programs include Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, AutoCad and Macromedia Freehand.
• If you are working with a file from a Mac computer, while you are converting to EPS you will be given an option to make it a PC (IBM) file.
• Follow the conversion directions on the page titled “Converting Your Files to Emailable Files”.
• If you have any questions, please contact our Art Department
  at: 714-556-6222 ext. 223.

Corel Draw X3 or lower
Adobe Illustrator CS5 or lower
Macromedia Freehand
Adobe Acrobat
AutoCad 14

Recommended formats for supplying vector artwork with graphic and text editing capabilities:

Corel Draw .cdr
Adobe Illustrator .ai/.eps (save as Illustrator file)
Macromedia Freehand .fh (preferred editing editable EPS format)
Adobe Acrobat .pdf
AutoCad .dwg/.dxf

Please include TIF fonts for all PC documents with uncommon fonts, or “convert document to curves/outlines”.

Corel Draw (Window PC)
Conversion is not necessary, just send files as it

Mac (iMac)
– go to file
– select save as
– find format
– select Corel Draw EPS
– click save
– select 9.0 (or higher) compatibility and 8-bit IBM PC preview
– click ok
– you may get warning, just click ok

Adobe Illustrator Window (PC)
– go to file
– select export
– go to file of sort, click on the down arrow
– find and select EPS
– click export
– another window will open, click ok

Mac (iMac)
– go to file
– select save as
– select 7.0 (or higher) compatibility and 8-bit IBM PC preview
– click ok
– you may get warning, click ok

Macromedia Freehand Window (PC)
– same as Adobe Illustrator

Mac (iMac)
– go to file
– select export
– find format
– select PC IBM EPS
– click export

AutoCAD (Window (PC)
– go to file
– select export
– go to file of sort, click on the down arrow, find and select EPS
– click export
– another window will open, click ok

(note : steps may vary slightly depending on program version)